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  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  time, for each of the last several years while I was away from MIT ... ) thing that the reader/admission officer needs to know in order to determine if you are a good fit for the community? Student: I don't know

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  waiting patiently for something, and even harder, arguably, to distract ... D student Jonathan Sun, a/k/a @jonnysun, created as a unit project for CMS.614 ... @tinycarebot to remind him and his Twitter followers to do nice things for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1.013 (Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design, for those not yet versed ... to use for our bridge. We have a pretty simple design (a truss bridge

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the ... magazine. [*Just got to say that I have a poop-ton of respect for housewives ... order: Then on Sunday, my mom and I came together to create one uber

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  definitely nsfw) 4b) ... I was also really busy. 5) For the amount of insane ... calculation for some pset. 6) A nearly lost calculator almost had a grown man ... freshmen) while she was at home over IAP, and for some reason our connection

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the ... orders aside, you are correct. I will be working at Los Alamos National ... cuprates". For those of you with complexions darker than mayonnaise, that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  This afternoon, as I was walking past the Center for Ultracold Atoms ... in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... the Center for Ultracold Atoms. Here at MIT, everything is interrelated

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  (7:17 AM) Sorry for the delay in updating but the rest of the day has ... the puzzle from &#%% and for your reading enjoyment, I'll post it here ... , I'm playing Ricky Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" in order to wake up

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  decade ago. And when I played back then, it was an unorganized free-for ... prison is fairly far away from MIT, but UNH had arranged for us to travel ... , I knew we were in for a bumpy ride. The weather conditions were far

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... , which makes me incredibly sad -- why did I go back and fix the code for ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ding_out.shtml The first step (Mollie): Asking for help at MIT http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  , and stroll down the stairs and ask myself the second big question for ... hoo, I'm "early". Yay for airlines padding flight times so we're always ... then the whole scene would freeze except for him? Yea, I experienced that

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  /Underdog won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making her the first black woman ... .) I couldn't attend it, since I had rehearsal for the Musical Theatre ... Social Sciences - classes in order to graduate (if I recall correctly, it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  (usually in the order of coffee, Coke, coffee, water, Coke). Usually I worry ... much for me. On the bright side, all of my worldly possessions are now sitting in the storage room, waiting for me to find in the fall. I gave

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  was symmetrical in order to reduce the need for aligning multiple parts ... production of the cells. Bryan has been at the BPEC for six months and found ... . His UROP advice to prefrosh is to be open-minded when you're looking for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  pipet all day. And then I come home at night and watch Law and Order: SVU ... low-fat Cool Whip to satisfy my sweet tooth. I am lucky for two things. First, we have the ability to cook for ourselves, and that gives us a lot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better ... 2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and ... , and Spiderman 2 Favorite Reality TV Show: Beauty and the Geek, for

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever ... of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... tools for characterizing materials. What if I just used one of those tools

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my ... family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy ... means for me; trying to get seven hours of sleep, eat at least two healthy

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his ... the academics that he doesn”t feel much affinity for otherwise. It was a ... humanities focus for these brilliant mathematical and scientific young minds

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  consumed by my final project for 6.869: Computer Vision. So I thought I would ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of ... computer. For instance, here are some questions you might be able to solve

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018